Masterfoods, the pany behd the Snickers ndy bar, has pulled the plug on a ntroversial, lip-lockg Super Bowl mercial followg an outcry among gay and human rights groups.
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SNICKERS AD PULLED AFTER PLATS OM GAYS
Gay Groups Call Commercial Featurg Men Accintally Kissg Homophobic * gay snickers commercial *
” One of the alternate endgs on the Snickers Web se showed the men attackg each Human Rights Campaign and the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn plaed to the maker of Snickers, Hackettstown-based Masterfoods USA, a divisn of Mars Inc., which also mak M&M’s and other Web se also featured vio of players om the Super Bowl teams reactg to the kiss.
“This type of jeerg om profsnal sports figur at the sight of two men kissg fuels the kd of anti-gay bullyg that hnts untls gay and lbian school children on playgrounds all across the untry, ” Human Rights Campaign print Joe Solmone said a spokman Marc McCarthy said Tuday the group believed “this kd of prejudice was excable. Snickers-spa-ntroversial-homophobic-ad-mercial-apology. "It is shameful and regrettable that at this pot there are pani that ntue to perpetuate stereotyp and promote homophobia, " the untry's LGBT State Feratn said a Twter statement.
""Hello, @snickers_, " Spanish polician Íñigo Errejón said his own Twter rponse to the homophobic Snickers ad.
MR. T ON HIS SNICKERS AD BEG YANKED OVER GAY CONTROVERSY
* gay snickers commercial *
"I don't like stigmatizg and lghg at the pluma (a Spanish term ed to scribe effemate, gay men). (END VIDEO CLIP)O'REILLY: Now, some gays thought that exposn was sultg, so is gone.
I am not homophobic. I am not a gay basher.
I mean, if what you say is te, was jt a speed walker, mockg that, has no gay implitn. O'REILLY: Was there ever any — when you saw or when you were dog , anybody say, you know, this might be misterpreted as a mockg of gays? If you were gay, would you be offend by this mercial?
A waer giv a flamboyantly gay man a Snickers, which turns him to a butch du. Now Snickers is apologizg for their ad beg "misterpreted." * gay snickers commercial *
" One guy om London or England said, "I'm gay, and I thought was funny.